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A Cockeyed Optimist Lyrics
Nellie:
When the skies are a bright canary yellow
I forget ev'ry cloud I've ever seen,
So they called me a cockeyed optimist
Immature and incurably green.
I have heard people rant and rave and bellow
That we're done and we might as well be dead,
But I'm only a cockeyed optimist
And I can't get it into my head.
I hear the human race
Is fallin' on its face
And hasn't very far to go,
But ev'ry whippoor will
Is selling me a bill,
And tellin' me it just ain't so.
I could say life is just a bowl of Jello
And appear more intelligent and smart,
But I'm stuck like a dope
With a thing called hope,
And I can't get it out of my heart!
Not this heart...
Last Update: September, 21st 2015
South Pacific Lyrics
- Act 1
- Overture
- Dites-moi
- A Cockeyed Optimist
- Twin Soliloquies
- Some Enchanted Evening
- Bloody Mary
- There Is Nothin' like A Dame
- Bali Ha'i
- My Girl Back Home
- I'm Gonna Wash that Man right outa My Hair
- Younger than Springtime
- A Wonderful Guy
- Finale: Act I
- Act 2
- Entr'acte
- Happy Talk
- Honey Bun
- You've Got to Be Carefully Taught
- This Nearly Was Mine
- Finale: Dites-moi (reprise)